User Guide

Editing Fonts
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Copying Composite Glyphs
If you copy composite glyphs (instead of having their own outlines
composite glyphs are built from references to other glyph outlines) to
another font, FontLab will try to not decompose (replace references to
glyph with actual glyph copies) them. Instead it will try to find matching
components in the glyph set that was copied or, if some components are
not present there – in the destination font.
If FontLab can completely restore composites in the destination font it will
even keep TrueType hinting programs for these glyphs.
Drag-Drop of the Composite Glyphs
If you prefer to use the drag-drop method to copy composite glyphs you
have one additional option: when you drop a composite glyph and FontLab
finds that one or more of its components were not selected to copy and do
not present in the destination font, it shows a message asking you if you
want to copy all the missing components. If your answer is Yes, then
FontLab will automatically append all the necessary components to the
destination font so that all the composites stay unchanged.